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To: DiogenesLamp

I noticed you omitted that part. So I just wanted to know.


12 posted on 09/02/2019 5:25:23 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
I noticed you omitted that part. So I just wanted to know.

I notice that people often bring it up in efforts to claim the Declaration of Independence was intended to be some commentary on slavery, which it wasn't.

I quote the salient point of the document, and one which people cannot twist into meaning something it was never intended to mean, as they constantly do with that "all men are created equal" part.

Sure, I believe all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, but as it is used today, it is a distraction from the actual intent of the document, which is to argue that "people" have a right to to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them.

It bugs me when people try to make the Declaration of Independence about slavery. It wasn't. It was about independence and why the states had a right to have it.

16 posted on 09/02/2019 5:36:40 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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